Example Sentences

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She caressed his cooling cheek as he had caressed her cheek so many times.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2013

Each day Brancusi had caressed these pieces, and each night covered them with cloth.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thought of her lying in her grave - she whom he had caressed - of what was going on down there, under the turf, and he feared he should go mad. 

From The Revolution in Tanner's Lane by Rutherford, Mark

She was particularly fond of us "three little ones" whom she had caressed in babyhood.

From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner

Forgetting he was no longer a child, she had caressed his hand approvingly; that was Hilda's tale.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William